Tomboy

Sophie 2022-09-02 00:38:11

The film does not have any background music, only the short dialogue of the character Liao Liao, which is very silent and cold. The only hilarious and noisy part is the part where Lorra and Lisa dance to the music in the room.

Simple short hair, thin body, clean and neat lines when wearing boy's clothes, and the face and the physiological structure wrapped in clothes that are much more delicate than boys of the same age form a strong contradictory beauty. In order not to expose herself, she made up a fake name that only boys would take. She looked in the mirror to see if her body conformed to the physiological characteristics of men. At an undeveloped age, she played football shirtless with the boys, and also Like they spit on the ground proudly after scoring a goal, she stuffed her swimming trunks like leather mud, did everything in disguise to swim with the boys, when her sister was bullied, she fought with a little more momentum and determination Not losing to the boy's opponent, when Lisa covered her eyes and kissed her, she was shy and uneasy.

I don't know why when I see Luo Er's disguise and lies, I feel sad and want to cry. The artworks are so determined to present the part of the deepest personality that cannot be touched and exposed. Every T has a period of groping and confusion about self-cognition since childhood, and even fear.

The little girls are all wearing pigtails, jumping on rubber bands, and pestering their mother to buy beautiful clothes, but she likes to wear loose clothes, go outside, play tops and slingshots, and think about saving pocket money to buy her favorite toy pistols. Even when she grew up, a girl of the same age dressed herself carefully and watched the inseparable love idol drama, she was still so slovenly, and then climbed up at 2 o'clock in the middle of the night just to watch a ball game, remembering the first time she would be a girl When the child's heart is moved, she asks why she is different from others? Some adults who can see see it, but they don't care. They think that she will know what a girl should look like when she grows at random age. The truth is they were disappointed.

There is a friend who took a little apprentice in her former job. The little apprentice who has been with her for a few months did not notice her true gender at all. In the end, she only learned from others that he was surprised. He ran over and asked me if it was true, and I told him you don't need to care about this, she is just your master, and she is just a person who works in your work. This T who had the most contact with me often made me think about something. I didn't accept her attitude towards life. Love, as a part of life, was infinitely magnified in her world. It seemed that she only existed for this. But at the same time, I admire her. I must admit that she is more real and braver than me. Her dedication to a certain point makes her never pay attention to other people's eyes and never fear the future. This really made me, who was hesitant and cowardly in my bones, feel ashamed.

The same theme "Boys Don't Cry" also tells a tragedy of contradiction between existence and id. The despair is unspeakable. When she was forced to expose her body, it was like stabbing a knife in the soul. In real life, even Few Ts can face their bodies in the mirror. Tina concludes her true self with the end of her life. "tomboy" is not so cruel, perhaps because the protagonist is just a child, is she trying to tell us that she has not grown up yet, and her gender recognition disorder has room for manoeuvre , I am not optimistic about this. Finally, when Luo Er's mother discovered her secret, forced her to wear a dress and dragged her to clarify to the friends who thought she was a boy, the mother expressed her thoughts: "I don't mind you treating yourself as a boy. , I just have no way, you can't go on like this, if you have a good way, you tell me, I don't."

There is no way to solve the thing, because there is no cause, even if there is no way to deal with it, it will still be For that problem, time only makes a mask, not a panacea.
It ended like this, the fragile disguise was torn apart, and there was nowhere to hide.

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Tomboy quotes

  • [last lines]

    Lisa: What's your name?

    Laure: My name is Laure.

  • Lisa: [subtitled version] Are you looking for the others? I noticed you looking at them. They already left. Are you new around here?

    Laure: Yeah, we got in yesterday.

    Lisa: I'm Lisa. I live here.

    [pause]

    Lisa: You're shy.

    Laure: No, I'm not.

    Lisa: Won't you tell me your name?

    Laure: Mickäel. My name is Mickäel.